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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part IV: The Latest Phase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word means relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being?
(a) Epidemial.
(b) Philological.
(c) Anthropological.
(d) Ontological.

2. What does the French term "idee recue" translate to in English (94)?
(a) A new idea.
(b) An accepted idea.
(c) An unaccepted idea.
(d) A revised idea.

3. The author notes that almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as what?
(a) A philologist.
(b) A biologist.
(c) An Occidentalist.
(d) An epidemiologist.

4. How many books are estimated to have been written dealing with the Near Orient between 1800 and 1950?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 100,000.

5. When was The Legacy of Islam published?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1879.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge founded?

2. Who is cited in Chapter 1 as having said, "Suddenly it seemed to a wide variety of thinkers, politicians, and artists that a new awareness of the Orient, which extended from China to the Mediterranean, had arisen" (42)?

3. Who is the author of Daniel Deronda?

4. When was Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron born?

5. When was the novel Tancred published?

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